A house painter and his exotic-dancer girlfriend were busted for stripping Long Island banks, gas stations and convenience stores of thousands of dollars over the past week, police said yesterday.

Working with Nassau County police and the Long Island bureau of the FBI, Suffolk cops collared Brian Quinn, 28, and his hard-living out-of-work stripper gal pal, Sheila Dean, 36, Tuesday after the couple allegedly knocked off a North Fork Bank in Hauppauge.

“In her day, she was probably pretty good-looking,” said a police source. “But from her mug shot, I can understand why she’s out of work.”

Quinn and Dean have been charged with at least five robberies – including cleaning out the register at two Carvels, a smoke shop, an Exxon station and a bank – between Friday and Tuesday. Quinn has also been implicated in at least five Nassau bank robberies and possession of crack cocaine, cops said.

On Monday, Quinn strolled into the North Fork Bank and handed the teller a note with instructions to hand over money, cops said. Dean allegedly waited in the getaway car, acting as a lookout.

The used the money to buy drugs, cops said. The couple never produced a weapon in any of the robberies, but they threatened as much a few times by reaching behind their backs into their belts or keeping their hands in their pockets, cops said.

In the bank Monday, however, video surveillance picked up a clear image of Quinn.

Acting on a hunch that Quinn stayed in the area, cops located his pickup truck at a Hampton Inn three miles from the bank and busted the couple at 6:30 Tuesday morning.

Quinn was held yesterday in lieu of $500,000 cash bail, or $1 million bond. Dean was held in lieu of $25,000 cash bail or $50,000 bond.